the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xv (the miraculous conception)

โ€œIn conclusion, we ask you to read Deuteronomy, 18:15-19 inclusive. From this prophecy you will clearly see that Jesus could not have been a Son of God after the flesh, and if there was nothing else in the whole Scriptures to contradict the miraculous conception, the words of Jesus himself contradict it positively: โ€œThat which [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xv (the miraculous conception)

โ€œLet us turn our attention to the Church and to the Church Doctrine. How early in the history of the Church, the doctrine โ€œthat the end justifies the meansโ€, came into existence, we are not prepared to say; but the early fathers in preaching to the Pagans constantly met the Pagan belief that their gods [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xv (the miraculous conception)

โ€œThe reader has no doubt inferred from what has been said that, in order to have a correct knowledge of Jesus, his mission and our relation to him as our Savior, it is absolutely essential to believe that he was the son of Joseph and Mary, in the sense in which we are the children [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xiii (Jesus of the order of Melchizedek)

โ€œIn the preceding chapter we considered references in early Biblical history to the physical manifestation of the Order of Melchizedek. The unequivocal declaration in Hebrews that Jesus was of that Order is a fact, whatever the belief may be regarding the authenticity of the Epistle to the Hebrews or of the Bible. The existence in [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xii (the eternal order of melchizedek)

โ€œAs further evidence of the existence of this Eternal Brotherhood, we read in Genesis 32:24-28: "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's [...]